A collection of 12 posts
Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
A new book looks back on the making of Billy Wilder’s American classic.
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
The assumption that once drove creative writing—that interior life deserves as much respect and interest as the latest bump in relations at the White House—no longer obtains.
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
Richard Matheson, George R. Stewart, and the birth of the Calipocalypse.
Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.
Elmer Kelton’s ‘The Time It Never Rained’ is an overlooked classic.
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.